id: 170871 accession number: 2013.343 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.343 updated: 2019-05-15 11:54:51.538000 A blindfolded suitor is brought before a princess; verso: scrolling floral vines, 1755. Fayzullah (Indian, active c. 1730–1765). Opaque watercolor with gold on paper (recto); opaque watercolor with gold on paper (verso); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection 2013.343 title: A blindfolded suitor is brought before a princess; verso: scrolling floral vines title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1755 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1755 current location: creditline: Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection copyright: --- culture: India, Lucknow, Mughal, 18th century technique: opaque watercolor with gold on paper (recto); opaque watercolor with gold on paper (verso) department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art collection: Indian Art - Mughal type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Fayzullah (Indian, active c. 1730–1765) - artist --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed in two places: on capital of central pillar: 'amal - i Fayzullah ("the workof Fayzullah"), and below: bi - qalam i Fayzullah Musavvir walad - i Faqirullah Musavvir dar sanna 1755 ("by the pen of Fayazullah the painter son of Faqirullah the painter in the the year 1755") translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Art and Stories from Mughal India opening date: 2016-07-31T04:00:00 Art and Stories from Mughal India. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (July 31-October 23, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * The Cleveland Museum of Art (7/31/2016-10/23/2016); Art and Stories from Mughal India, cat. 80, p. 263-66. --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: In a scene set on a carpeted terrace in the women’s palace quarters, an older woman of the harem drags a young prince with a white blindfold over his eyes before a princess grasping a document. Such a scene evokes a literary allusion of a princess who selects her suitor, but it also resonates with circumstances at the Mughal court. Signed and dated by the artist, this painting was completed at a time when powerful women wielded control over the emperor, and Ahmad Shah Bahadur (reigned 1748–54), son and successor of Muhammad Shah, had been blinded and deposed less than one year before. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2013.343/2013.343_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2013.343/2013.343_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2013.343/2013.343_full.tif